In His Name Devotionals
GOD'S PATIENCE
In His Name Devotionals
GOD'S PATIENCE
Have you ever wished that you could take an eraser and just erase your life and start it all over again? Some have tried to erase their lives with suicide, but they have left more scars than were there in the first place.
God started all over when He saw that "the earth was corrupt in His eyes and was full of violence" (Gen. 6:11). It makes one wonder if they had TV in those days because the record says that "every inclination of man's heart was only evil all the time" (Gen. 8:5).
Noah was the only man who maintained God in his mind, and for this reason he found "grace in the eyes of the Lord" (Gen. 6:8). Except for Noah and his family, God erased mankind from the face of the earth by a great flood which is confirmed by many legends throughout the earth.
Noah and his family began a new creation from Mt. Ararat. They started by worshipping God with an animal sacrifice. The earth was washed clean and there was a new beginning. However, it was not long until mankind reverted to his old sinful ways and tried to build a tower to reach to heaven, probably to avert any recurrence of another flood.
The people who lived before the flood scoffed at the idea that God would destroy the earth by water. So today men scoff at God's promise to destroy the present earth by fire. "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.' But this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed by water, perished. But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word, are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the Day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is long-suffering to us, not willing that any should perish, but that all could come to repentance" (2 Pet. 3:3-9).
Could God's patience with man be running out?
